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From: riacs!rutgers!ttidca.tti.com!jamess@decwrl.dec.com (Jim Schoonover)
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Subject: Re: The Nature and Function of a Guru
Summary: Is it possible to ever get one's foot out of one's mouth?
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Date: 9 Jun 91 17:38:04 GMT
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I received email from someone expressing their upset concerning the
suggestion I made that Krishnamurti may have for a brief time had the
notion that others could be awakened by simply spending time in his
company, calling it a "monstrous idea."  I got this idea from something
that I remembered reading in the Mary Lutyens book, "Krishnamurti: The
Years of Awakening".  I honestly don't have the time to dig through that
book to find exactly what it was I read that gave me that idea; nor do
I think that it's really that important a matter.

However, I did reflect on it some and realized that, whatever it was,
it must have been something from when Krishnamurti was still relatively
young and still connected with the Theosophists, probably something from
even before his experience in Ojai in 1922, which Leadbeater called his
"third Initiation."  Indeed, my wild idea may likely have been generated
from nothing more than some mention that perhaps the youthful Krishnamurti
felt that his close associates might benefit somehow from his personal
attention and encouragement, that they might possibly catch a bit of
his intensity and devotion to truth.

I offer my sincere apologies to any Krishnamurti admirers out there who
may have been offended by the suggestion which I previously made.

-Jim